{"id":1542,"date":"2005-03-04T12:58:40","date_gmt":"2005-03-04T17:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cgm13.net\/wordpress\/?p=1542"},"modified":"2008-04-16T07:29:11","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T12:29:11","slug":"high-disappointment-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=1542","title":{"rendered":"High Disappointment, Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/queervuemirror.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Tallulah Givehead<\/strong><\/a> asks what the big deal is over that one minute that&#8217;s gonna be missing from &#8220;High Tension.&#8221; The big deal (for me anyway) is that the tone of the movie will be effected. One minute of blood and guts is a lot of screen time to be trimmed. Especially since Lions Gate has been promoting the film as being a &#8220;hardcore slasher flick.&#8221; To me the trimming shows no faith on the part of the studio in the horror movie genre or the fans that go see them.<\/p>\n<p>Just think &#8230; what would the original &#8220;Dawn of the Dead&#8221; have been like if Romero has bowed to pressure and originally released the film with an &#8220;R&#8221; instead of risking releasing it unrated?<\/p>\n<p>There are so many horror films out there that have been trimmed to get an &#8220;R&#8221; and then released &#8220;Unrated&#8221; on video. It&#8217;s just annoying because LGF has been saying for over a year that the film would be NC-17. I think that I can speak for those of us that have been interested in &#8220;High Tension.&#8221; The slasher film has been done a bazillion times already. What was going to be so great about &#8220;High Tension&#8221; was they weren&#8217;t gonna edit it. It was gonna get the NC-17 for the violence (and not for any sexual content). <\/p>\n<p>Yeah. I know that eventually we will get it on video. But, it&#8217;s just not the same as sitting in a darkened movie theater with a bunch of strangers who are getting the crap scared out of them as well.<!--c694e7e35a57b46dd0905fdea4c15e0a-->~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tallulah Givehead asks what the big deal is over that one minute that&#8217;s gonna be missing from &#8220;High Tension.&#8221; The big deal (for me anyway) is that the tone of the movie will be effected. One minute of blood and guts is a lot of screen time to be trimmed. Especially since Lions Gate has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EnCu-oS","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}